Gold Line light rail service between Sacramento and Folsom was disrupted again Wednesday due to another copper wire theft along the tracks, an incident authorities say is linked to a suspected serial thief who was arrested hours earlier following an overnight operation near the rail corridor.
According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, deputies assigned to Sacramento Regional Transit took 51-year-old Jesse Jeremiah into custody after locating him near the tracks with stolen infrastructure materials believed to be connected to multiple thefts that have repeatedly interrupted Gold Line service, including Wednesday’s outage.
“Deputies assigned to Sacramento Regional Transit arrested 51-year-old Jesse Jeremiah this morning, after an overnight operation,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “Deputies located Jeremiah near the tracks with a wagon tied to an ongoing serial copper theft investigation. Inside the wagon, deputies found 18 large strands of copper wire belonging to Regional Transit and multiple burglary tools used in these thefts.”…